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Why Was I Not Made Of Stone., Ian Callen

Graduate Thesis Collection

The original inspiration for this work came from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame when Quasimodo asks the gargoyles on the cathedral “Why was I not made of stone like thee?” as he watches Esmerelda ride off. This piece is an attempt to express the aspect of the human state contained in Quasimodo’s words. I believe that this piece succeeds in communicating both the innate humanity in the futile search for a state of invulnerability and the intrinsic value and beauty of despair. It is neither optimistic or pessimistic but rides a fine line between the two without being …

Songs About Words, Justin Hung

Graduate Thesis Collection

A song cycle for baritone and mixed chamber ensemble, "Songs about Words" consists of five songs for everyday concepts and subjects, and explores deeper themes of communication and identity. The ensemble consists of piano, accordion, tenor saxophone, percussion and double bass. The text was inspired by Pablo Neruda and written by the composer.

Singing Out: Gala Choruses And Social Change, Heather Maclachlan

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Can you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the professed aim of singers who are part of choruses affiliated with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). Theses choruses first emerged in the 1970s, and grew out of a very American tradition of (often gender-segregated) choral singing that explicitly presents itself as a community-based activity. By taking a close look at these choruses and their mission, Heather MacLachlan unpacks the fascinating historical and cultural dynamics behind groups that seek to change society for the better by encouraging acceptance of LGBT-identified people and promoting diversity …

Guide To The Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Collection of De Paur Chorus Materials is small and holds sound recordings, photographs and ephemera documenting the De Paur Chorus and its activities, primarily during the early 1950s, a chorus established by Leonard de Paur.

Guide To The Caleb Dube Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Caleb Dube was an ethnomusicology scholar and teacher who studied blues music through an anthropological framework. The Caleb Dube Collection primarily contain general research in the fields of cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, along with more narrow research linking these two fields of study to Chicago, and the blues.

Guide To The Collection Of Materials On The National Association Of Negro Musicians (Nanm), Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) was founded in Chicago by a group of African-American professional musicians and composers to advance the education and careers of African-American musicians; there are local branches of NANM in many cities. The collection contains materials about the National Association of Negro Musicians and its history and activities, particularly the primary documents included in A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians, edited by Doris Evans McGinty.

Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection reflects his activities as a bandmaster, a press correspondent, activities in the Hotel Association of the Virgin Islands, and as educator, civic leader, composer, author, and local historian in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Guide To The Dominique-René De Lerma Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Dominique-René de Lerma (1928–2015) was a prominent, pioneering scholar in black music research, an oboist, an author, and an educator. The collection contains his research materials, collected scores, and sound recordings.

Guide To The Anna Gardner Goodwin Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Anna Gardner Goodwin was a composer of classical music. Her compositions include “Adelene” and “Freedom to All March.” and the collection also contains biographical and genealogical documents, musical scores, and other material related to her family.

Guide To The Zenobia Powell Perry Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Zenobia Powell Perry was a professor, pianist, and composer of classical music. The collection is comprised entirely of Perry’s unpublished scores and music manuscripts, and the collection was arranged by her biographer, Jeannie Gayle Pool.

Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

These records chronicle the Chicago centennial project in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, and activist, headquartered at Columbia College Chicago; one of many such local committees who came together globally.

Guide To The Wendell Wright Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Wendell G. Wright Collection consists primarily of materials relating to the Lois J. Wright Memorial Concert Series as well as programs and correspondence. Also included are several published musical scores by Black composers and manuscript and facsimile manuscripts of Gerald Burks Wilson.

Ancient Mesopotamian Music, The Politics Of Reconstruction, And Extreme Early Music, Samuel N. Dorf

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

I write this piece primarily as a musicologist and amateur early music practitioner (viola da gamba player) who tries to understand the ways twentieth- and twenty-first century musicians and scholars have imagined and performed ancient music and dance. This essay emerged from my book project Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1935 and brings my training as a historical musicologist and dance historian to bear on issues typically of concern to archaeologists, classicists, and linguists.

While working on that book, I kept running across a number of individuals working now who are deeply engaged in …

Music In Medicine: Enhancing Emotion Recognition In Medical Students, Grace Chon, Debra Lew Harder, Md, Dma

Phase 1

Previous studies have shown that visual art courses for medical students have improved their diagnostic skills. A music course in a similar fashion may enhance their ability to recognize patient emotion in the patient’s voice. Identifying patient emotion via auditory cues allows future physicians to appropriately respond to patients’ mental states and provide empathetic care. This study proposes that medical students who complete a course in recognizing emotional cues in music will outperform a control group in correctly identifying emotion in the human voice.

Participants were randomly divided into control and experimental groups, in which only the latter completed a …

Julien Wilson: Improvisation And Timbral Manipulation On Selected Recordings With The Julien Wilson Trio, Maximillian Wickham

Theses : Honours

This dissertation analyses the playing style of Australian jazz saxophonist Julien Wilson. More specifically, the investigation focuses on his recordings with the Julien Wilson Trio – arguably Wilson’s best known and most original group – featuring Wilson on tenor saxophone, Stephen Grant on piano accordion, and Stephen Magnusson on nylon-string and electric guitars. Although Wilson has received many accolades throughout his career and has been highly lauded by critics, fans and fellow musicians, there is very little academic research investigating his playing style. This dissertation seeks to address this imbalance through an analysis of Wilson’s recordings with his most distinctive …

Richard Dyer's Star Theory Applied To Musician/Actress: Lady Gaga, Allora R. Lee

Capstone Showcase

Richard Dyer’s Stars and general studies analyze the unusual phenomena surrounding influential film stars and their unmitigated power to compel and amaze those outside of the spotlight. His studies separate the theory into three intermingling parts: stars as a social phenomenon, stars as images, and stars as signs. There are many components in Dyer’s studies that can be extracted and used in analyses of particular actors and actresses. However, this does not solely revolve around film stars. In this analysis, I will be examining the famous pop music icon and recent actress, Lady Gaga. Through an analysis of her style, …

The Role Of Verbal Skills In Analytical Music Therapy, The Bonny Method Of Guided Imagery And Music, And Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, Elizabeth Ingram

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of verbal skills as an intervention in music therapy practice in three models of music therapy: (a) analytical music therapy (AMT), (b) the Bonny method of guided imagery and music (BMGIM), and (c) Nordoff-Robbins music therapy (NRMT). Data were collected from three interviews that included each professional’s use of verbal skills in their respective model of music therapy. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Five themes emerged: (1) definitions of verbal intervention/verbal skills, (2) population dependent, (3) use of lyrics, (4) music as therapy vs music in therapy, (5) musical-verbal …

A Culturally Situated Perspective Of Music Therapy In Hungary, Sylvia E. Foldes-Berman

Theses & Dissertations

Little to no research has been done on the history, development and current practice of a specific country’s approach to music therapy. This study examines the development of music therapy in Hungary with regards to cultural influences, which the researcher has a unique understanding of as a first-generation Hungarian-American. Three Hungarian music therapists were invited to participate in qualitative interviews in Hungarian. After transcribing and translating the interviews, the data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis in order to locate themes, patterns and viewpoints. Five themes and one sub-theme emerged. These themes included: a) process of becoming a music therapist, …

From Student To Practitioner: Formal Music Education’S Influence On The Practitioner’S Informed Music Therapy Practice, Daniel M. Salaway

Theses & Dissertations

This study sought to understand further the relationship between the music therapist’s personal experience in formal music education and their music therapy practice. Key questions asked by the researcher included how music therapists describe, view, and conceptualize their own experiences of formal music education through the lens of music therapy practice. Data collection included semi-structured interviews from three practicing music therapists. The themes revealed within the data were organized into areas of intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences. Results of this study included themes of self-realization during music learning, identifying musical identities during early formal music education, personal uses of music, gratefulness …

Prefrontal High Gamma In Ecog Tags Periodicity Of Musical Rhythms In Perception And Imagination, S.A. Herff, C. Herff, A. J. Milne, Garett D. Johnson, J. J. Shih, D. J. Krusienski

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Rhythmic auditory stimuli are known to elicit matching activity patterns in neural populations. Furthermore, recent research has established the particular importance of high-gamma brain activity in auditory processing by showing its involvement in auditory phrase segmentation and envelope tracking. Here, we use electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings from eight human listeners to see whether periodicities in high-gamma activity track the periodicities in the envelope of musical rhythms during rhythm perception and imagination. Rhythm imagination was elicited by instructing participants to imagine the rhythm to continue during pauses of several repetitions. To identify electrodes whose periodicities in high-gamma activity track the periodicities in …

A Study On Performing The Hungarian Rhapsodies In The Liszt Tradition, Nicholas Mark Williams

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies (1851, 1853) have long been among the most popular collections of piano music. They have also long garnered a reputation for “superficial brilliance and effect” which seems to have influenced the way that famous pianists play the works in public. But would a performer immersed in the Liszt tradition have approached them differently? This dissertation aims to promote a re-evaluation of the Hungarian Rhapsodies from this perspective: considering Liszt’s own ideas on music and performance, the writings and recordings of his pupils, and Liszt’s book Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie (1859).

Music And Communal Division During The French Wars Of Religion, Cameron G. Wade

Honors Theses

This Senior Honors Thesis explores the social and cultural impact of confessional musical composition and performance on the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). Because Huguenots and Catholics identified with and were widely identifiable by their respective musical styles, cultural divisions between each confession were emphasized by differences in music. This capacity of sacred and confessionally-influenced secular music to highlight and reinforce societal divides is evidenced by the interconfessional violence that accompanied the public performance of sacred music in cities as well as the pressures imposed on composers to create music which clearly aligned with their respective confessions. As the wars …

Score Following With Hidden Tempo Using A Switching State-Space Model, Yucong Jiang, Chris Raphael

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

A score-following program traces the notes in a musical score during a performance. This capability is essential to many meaningful applications that synchronize audio with a score in an on-line fashion. Existing algorithms often stumble on certain difficult cases, one of which is piano music. This paper presents a new method to tackle such cases. The method treats tempo as a variable rather than a constant (with constraints), allowing the program to adapt to live performance variations. This is first expressed by a Kalman filter model at the note level, and then by an almost equivalent switching state-space model at …

Resource Ecologies, Political Economies And The Ethics Of Audio Technologies In The Anthropocene, Eliot Bates

Publications and Research

Understanding how recorded and amplified stage musics contribute towards producing the Anthropocene necessitates attending to complex transnational flows of material, capital and labor, and how they coalesce into technological objects. This is complicated by the wide array of sites, practices and knowledges involved during various stages of the production process, from initial resource extraction, to smelting, component manufacturing, technology assembly, and distribution. To develop a suitable technological ethics, and to understand what happens to environments and to human, animal and plant lifeworlds, requires one to resist abstraction and undertake a global accounting of resource ecologies with recourse to planetary-scale political …

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Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อการศึกษาแนวคิด วิธีการ และมูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้องกับวงปี่พาทย์นางหงส์ โครงสร้างบทเพลงและการเรียบเรียงบทเพลงประเภทเพลงนางหงส์ โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ผู้วิจัยมีวิธีดำเนินการวิจัยจากการศึกษารวบรวมข้อมูลที่เกี่ยวข้องในเอกสารสิ่งพิมพ์ต่าง ๆ รวมถึงการเก็บข้อมูลสัมภาษณ์ครูผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิผู้เชี่ยวชาญทางด้านดุริยางคศิลป์ไทย โดยทำการศึกษาข้อมูลหลักในกรณีศึกษาของครูภัทระ คมขำ ผลการวิจัย พบว่า ครูภัทระ คมขำมีแนวคิดที่เป็นลักษณะเฉพาะในการเรียบเรียงบทเพลงนางหงส์ เพื่อส่งเสริมกระบวนการการเรียนรู้ในระบบการศึกษาทางด้านดุริยางคศิลป์ไทย โดยมุ่งเน้นหลักวิชาการและการฝึกปฏิบัติเป็นสำคัญ อีกทั้งยังเป็นการอนุรักษ์บทเพลงต่าง ๆ รวมถึงการใช้นัยยะการเรียนรู้ของโบราณาจารย์ทางดุริยางคศิลป์ไทย การวิเคราะห์โครงสร้างและวิธีการเรียบเรียงบทเพลงนางหงส์ของครูภัทระ คมขำ มีจำนวน 10 เพลง ได้แก่ เพลงอนงค์สุชาดา เพลงมุล่ง เพลงแขกไทร เพลงเทพบรรทม เพลงกัลยาเยี่ยมห้อง เพลงสาลิกาชมเดือน เพลงวิเวกเวหา เพลงอาถรรพ์ เพลงการเวกใหญ่ และเพลงน้ำค้าง พบว่ามีกระบวนการในการเรียบเรียงเพลงนางหงส์แสดงถึงความสามารถในการสร้างสรรค์รูปแบบของโครงสร้างเพลงนางหงส์ จำนวน 8 รูปแบบ และในส่วนของวิธีการเรียบเรียงเพลงนางหงส์มีการเลือกใช้บทเพลงที่มีความสัมพันธ์ชององค์ประกอบสำคัญต่าง ๆ ได้แก่ การใช้กลุ่มเสียงปัญจมูล ความเชื่อมโยงของเสียงลูกตก สำนวนเพลง สำเนียงภาษาของเพลงและนัยยะความหมายของบทเพลงที่มีความสอดคล้องสัมพันธ์กันอย่างกลมกลืนเป็นไปตามระเบียบแบบแผนทางหลักทฤษฎี ดุริยางคศิลป์ไทย

Concert Recording 2020-01-18, Felix Olschofka, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Dominic K. Na, Josquin Larsen, Eun Seo Park

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonata for two violins in E minor, Op. 3, No 5 I. Allegro ma poco ; II.Gavotte - andante grazioso ; III. Presto / Jean-Marie Leclair -- [12:58]. Eight pieces for violin and cello, Op. 39. Prelude ; Intermezza ; Gavotte ; Berceuse ; Canzonetta ; Scherzo / Reinhold Gliere -- [26:40]. Piano quintet in A minor, Op. 84 I. Moderato - allegro ; II. Adagio ; III. Andante - allegro / Edward Elgar.

Concert Recording 2020-01-19, Lisa Auten, Elizabeth Perry, Hannah Martin

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonata in A minor, D, 821 "Arpeggione" I. Allegro moderato ; II. Adagio ; III. Allegretto / Franz Schubert -- [23:20]. La flute de pan I. Pan et les bergers ; II. Pan et les oiseaux ; III. Pan et les nymphes / Jules Mouquet -- [39:47]. Deep blue / Ian Clarke -- [46:01]. Winter spirits / Katherine Hoover -- [50:30]. Maya / Ian Clarke.

Concert Recording 2020-02-01, Stephen Page, Eric Troiano, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Lessons of the sky / Rodney Rogers -- [10:05]. Rhapsodie / Claude Debussy ; arranged by Rousseau -- [21:37]. Aeolian song / Warren Benson -- [26:43]. Suite Rhapsodica I. Introduction ; II. Aria / Jindrich Feld -- [31:34]. Hocket / Meredith Monk -- [35:18]. Holy Roller / Libby Larsen.

Concert Recording 2020-02-12, Eric Troiano, Miroslava Panayotova

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00] Sonata, Op.29. I. Andante maestoso ; II. Altegro energico / Robert Muczynski -- [07:13]. Aeolian song / Warren Benson -- [12:40]. Lilith. ; I. The female demon; II. Succuba ; III. Will-O'-the-wisp ; IV. Child stealer ; V. The night dance / William Bolcom -- [29:44]. Sonata for alto saxophone and piano. I. Moderato ; II. Very expressive ; III. Very fast / David Maslanka.

Compositional Modeling: A Classical Imitative Pedagogy For The Modern Era, Robert Harris Jeter

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Students of composition develop two skills simultaneously: craft and creativity. Since students are more naturally inclined to focus on one of these skills over the other, finding the proper balance is an educational challenge. An effective pedagogical system for composition cultivates both of these necessary skills.

Imitation was a preferred pedagogical approach during the Classical period. In his 1848 book School of Practical Composition, Carl Czerny instructs his readers to apply the extensive rules of composition by strictly following a compositional model. Although this methodology lost favor during the nineteenth century, the imitative techniques presented by Czerny are flexible enough …